Eating Disorders Recovery Support
A site for all who wish to recover from eating disorders
Our goals:
1. Reduce the shame and stigma currently attached to eating disorders and mental illness.
2. Improve access to care for those suffering from eating disorders in the form of support groups, advocacy, and screening for eating disorders.
3. Lobby our representatives for improved coverage for psychiatric illness and ultimately mental health parity.
Listen to NPR recordings of interviews with experts about the problem of eating disorders in Latinos, Men and African Americans!
Learn more about the critically important issue from the Joslin Center for Diabetes on the intersection of Type I diabetes and eating disorders.
Stigma and access to care still remains a problem for all sufferers. We must continue the fight! Go to the Eating Disorders Coalition website to find out how YOU can help!
New Updates to the Recovery Workbook! Check it out!
Need a forum to discuss eating disordered issues?
Try www.the-f-word.org/discuss
It is settled. People are quite curious about the origin of the purple flower. The flower is quite special, and is a symbol of the power of recovery and the potential someone posesses within. Recovery, like a garden of flowers needs time for the seeds to be sowed, and tended before one can first appreciate sprouts, guard it against weeds, see buds and watch it "blossom into a new life."
The flower is purple because it a color of royalty (ergo, strength) and a flower itself represents a new beginning and a rebirth, like spring.
Need Inspiration? Check out these quotes from famous people:
• We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. (Marie Curie)
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity. (Ruby
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Disclaimer: Use of this website or the materials therein do not constitute a doctor-patient relationship and is not a substitute for professional treatment.